Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically > a ypcat passwd | grep -i $...@. It's very useful in looking up users > especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs > to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix system to do it.
Are similar/identical IDs created for those users in the Windows domain? If so, you can use mkpasswd in place of ypcat passwd to get something roughly equivalent. > I was wondering if there was a cygwin port of NIS or YP so that I could > do this ypcat from within Cygwin. I haven't heard of this being available, and a search doesn't turn up ypcat in any Cygwin package. However, someone apparently ported the Linux tools to Cygwin at one time: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00144.html Too bad the message didn't include any instructions and only refers to a website which appears to be dead now. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
